Download Backbeat(biography, drama, music)A pre-fame Beatles head for the seedy clubs of Hamburg in search of success. The band meet up with a group of trendy German beatniks, one of whom (Astrid Kircherr) bass guitarist Stuart Sutcliffe falls in love with. Whilst best friend John Lennon can only watch, Sutcliffe has to choose between rock 'n roll and a new life in Germany...

actors:

Marcelle Duprey

as Singer

Stephen Dorff

as Stuart Sutcliffe

Ian Hart

as John Lennon

John White

as Sailor 1

Bernard Merrick

as Sailor 2

Nicholas Tennant

as Sailor 3

Finola Geraghty

as Model

Rob Spendlove

as Arthur Ballard

Charlie Caine

as Lord Woodbine

Jennifer Ehle

as Cynthia Powell

Gary Bakewell

as Paul McCartney

Chris O'Neill

as George Harrison

Frieda Kelly

as Mrs. Harrison

Scot Williams

as Pete Best

Paul Humpoletz

as Bruno

directors: Iain Softleyrating:6.60This is an excellent representation of the Beatles' Hamburg days. But True heroes of the film are actually Sutcliffe, Lennon and Astrid.The film was made a few years after the infamous book Goldman and there were indications In a homosexual relationship between John and Stu ( "I was jealous of !" Astrid might have said to John!), but the director does not insist And finally represents a real friendship.He pools Stu down-to-earth Astrid of world against the elitist intellectual chic: they go to Pictures to see Melville's "Les enfants terribles" (actually a Cocteau History), and she seems to be very fond of the French < br> Culture: Cocteau, Sartre, Edith Piaf, Rimbaud, and was ahead of his time since fifteen years later, the rock singer Patti Smith had the same Idols.The scenarists also draw a parallel between Klaus Voorman the / Astrid relationship and "les enfants terribles" Ian Hart is a Excellent John Lennon, in turn cynical, violent, delicate, repugnant, abhorrent; Gary Bakewell looks like Paul, but He is not a single moment to shine, as Georges, was completely Insignificant.The music is very exciting. While Stu (Dorff) sings his ditty into a gleeful croak, it is rock and roll! In End of the movie, the dialogue starts to sound as if the acts false.Everybody The Beatles were to become huge at the time, who could have predicted That career? It is a reconstruction of history, a posteriori.And if Final on the lines of Astrid, Stu and Klaus are useful, on which the Beatles are too : everyone knew they were the group most Large all time.